The Best First Date Spots in Nashville

Settle in at Lockeland Table, a community kitchen and bar in East Nashville with both indoor and outdoor seating. The room has a warm, neighborhood feel, with wood-fired pizza, smoked bone marrow, and other shareable dishes on the menu.

Community Hour runs from 4pm to 6pm Monday through Saturday.

Share island-inspired food and craft cocktails at Pearl Diver, a tropical bar and restaurant in East Nashville. The lush patio has cabanas, and outdoor heaters keep it comfortable in any season.

Weekend brunch is on the menu too. It opens at 4pm Monday through Friday and at 2pm on weekends.

Patterson House is a dim, speakeasy-style cocktail bar that works well for a quieter, more intimate date. The menu features eight original cocktails that change regularly, alongside a longer list of 150 rotating classics.

The bar is on the fifth floor of the Bill Voorhees Building, with the entrance on Paseo Place behind the building. It is open daily from 4pm to 1am.

Plan a dinner for two at Ophelia's, an old-school American-Italian restaurant and bar Downtown. The dining room is intimate, and a 50-person open-air patio is screened by greenery. Split a Margherita pizza or the lasagna.

Meet for coffee, food, or a cocktail at Cafe Roze, an all-day cafe in East Nashville. The space is bright and welcoming, and the menu pairs fresh food with cocktails.

Open daily from 8am to 10pm. Weekday happy hour runs from 4pm to 6pm, with classic cocktails.

Pick a game together over coffee or a craft beer at Game Point Cafe, a board game cafe in East Nashville with more than 400 games. Strategy, cooperative, family, and classic titles all fill the shelves.

The cafe sits inside the Bongo East coffeehouse and keeps a full coffee bar, along with craft beer and hard cider. The doors are open daily from 7am to 10pm, and the full menu runs from 7am to 8pm.

A seasonally changing menu of handmade pastas and natural wine anchors dinner at Rolf and Daughters, a New American restaurant in Germantown.

The industrial-chic room is built around large communal tables, a good fit for couples happy to chat with the neighbors. The restaurant is open every night from 5pm to 10pm.

Walk the galleries at the Frist Art Museum, Downtown in an Art Deco building with exhibitions that change. Afterward, coffee or dessert gives you a place to keep talking.

Thursday is the late night, when the museum stays open until 8pm, a good lead-in to drinks or dinner. The museum is open Monday and Thursday through Sunday, closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and opens at 1pm on Sundays.

Bowl a few frames on six retro lanes, then head out to the patio for bocce at Pinewood Social, Downtown by the Cumberland River. The patio also has ping pong and two dipping pools.

A 30-seat copper bar serves handcrafted cocktails, and the coffee shop has couches for settling in to talk. Each afternoon from 3pm until 5pm, the bar and kitchen run specials on drinks and bites.

Browse Downtown Nashville galleries together on the First Saturday Art Crawl, a free monthly walk that runs from 6pm to 9pm. Some galleries offer refreshments.